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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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2. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






3. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -






4. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.






5. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.






6. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






7. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






8. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






9. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.






10. Open syllable






11. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






12. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn






13. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading






14. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.






15. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






16. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






17. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






18. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






19. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together






20. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






21. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading






22. English as a second language






23. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo






24. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes






25. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.






26. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






27. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.






28. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






29. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






30. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






31. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.






32. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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33. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.






34. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






35. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






36. Individual Educational Plan






37. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






38. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






39. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin






40. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






41. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






42. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.






43. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






44. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






45. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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46. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






47. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






48. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






49. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






50. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.